College of Wooster's Elliot Miller earns NCAA scholarship

The College of Wooster’s prestige and national-level recognition for consistently producing elite scholar-athletes continues, as men’s soccer’s Elliot Miller is the Fighting Scots’ 20th NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship selection in the last decade. Wooster continues to rank No. 3 across the entire NCAA — Div. I, II and III — for most recipients in the last five years.

Miller is Wooster’s 12th selection within the five-year cycle, placing the College behind Stanford University (15 recipients) and the University of Kentucky (13) for most selections in that span. Wooster accounts for 40% of the North Coast Athletic Conference’s selections over the last five years, positioning the conference No. 2 within Div. III and No. 5 overall for most recipients. Of note, more Wooster student-athletes have been selected for an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship in the last five years than the entire New England Small College Athletic Conference and the entire Ivy League.

“I am incredibly honored to receive the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship,” said Miller. “I am thoroughly grateful for all those who have supported me throughout my collegiate journey in the classroom, on the field and around campus. I could not have received this honor without the amazing resources available at The College of Wooster. I would like to give a massive thank you to Dr. Meagen Pollock and Coach Andy Zidron for their brilliant guidance academically and athletically, as well as to my endorsers and all those who supported me through the application process.”

Miller’s $10,000 award from the NCAA puts an exclamation point on a strong senior season. The senior earned fourth-team United Soccer Coaches All-America and second-team College Sports Communicators’ Academic All-America honors, becoming the first Fighting Scot men’s soccer player to earn both honors in the same season this past fall. The North Coast Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year topped Wooster with 22 points on eight goals and six assists, ranking within the top three in the conference in all three statistical categories. Miller led Wooster to an 11-2-6 season for the program’s top year since 2004. He scored to help Wooster draw with then-third-ranked Denison University and broke ties against John Carroll University and Oberlin College with game-winning goals in the final 10 minutes.

As an environmental geoscience major, Miller is analyzing palagonite from Iceland’s western zone and the implications for Martian glaciovolcanism for his Independent Study. Miller’s study abroad travels took him to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. Prior to his senior year, Miller interned with Wooster’s earth sciences department and is a three-year student assistant athletic trainer. He is actively involved with the College’s Geology Club.

Miller is still finalizing where he will attend graduate school. He plans to pursue planetary geology as his field of study.

Men’s soccer leads the way among Wooster’s NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipients in the last decade with four, all of which have come since 2020. Men’s soccer’s previous NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipients are Andreas Xenofontos (2020-21), Wilson Freije (2021-22) and Max Wiley (2024-25). Miller is Wooster’s 34th overall selection.

The NCAA awards 126 postgraduate scholarships annually. They are one-time, nonrenewable grants of $10,000 and are awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically, who are either in the final season of NCAA athletics eligibility or have received an undergraduate degree. Recipients must intend to continue academic work beyond the baccalaureate degree as a part-time or full-time graduate student.